Nicole Foy: Don’t try this at home …

Going in for surgery soon? You might ask if they use razors or clippers in the operating room. It could mean the difference between a steady recovery and one complicated by infection.

What the experts call “preoperative hair removal,” or pre-surgical shaving, is coming under fire from Texas’ physician leaders. The Texas Medical Association, in a Friday release titled “Nix nicks,” urged surgeons and nurses to toss the razors and instead take up clippers. The tiny openings in the skin that shaving can cause create conduits for infection. Clipping the hair (c’mon — you won’t feel a thing!) has been shown in studies to cut down on that risk.